[CW] One Day to Extra Class

[Rolfe Tessem]

--On Sunday, April 21, 2002 12:32 PM -0700 Patrick <SergeantL@starband.net> 
wrote:

> Oh great, here we go. I predicted this years ago. We won't stop with
> demanding to know if a person took the 20 wpm test. We will demand to know
> if the op took the test at the FCC Office. I can hear it now. "The only
> real hams are the hams that took the test at the FCC building. The one
> that was 5,000 miles from my home, and for some reason was in a place
> where it always snowed and was uphill both ways. Not the warm and
> friendly VEC place where the nice guys gave you the test and for a
> deposit of $10.00 and a wink would just give you your license.
>
> I know all the stories. "That mean old FCC Examining Engineer held a gun
> to my heard and told me that if I made one mistake in my copy he would
> blow my brains out, and send my family to a Gulag in the Soviet interior.
> He then made me copy the code with one hand because I had to listen to
> the code record by holding a hand rolled paper cone with a needle stuck
> in it up to my ear with the other." Then, I had to construct an entire
> Class A amplifier and invent a particle beam anti missile device from a
> lump of coal.

Actually, as memory serves, this is an amazingly accurate account ;-).

Rolfe, W1VC

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Rolfe Tessem
rolfe@ldp.com
Lucky Duck Productions, Inc.